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5Rivers Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k67 grants · $180k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $125k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM | $75,000 |
| DASVANDH NETWORK | $50,000 |
| U C SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| SIKH RESEARCH INSTITUTE SRI | $10,000 |
| G Singh | $10,000 |
| SIKH DHARMA OF PHOENIX | $6,000 |
| J Singh | $5,488 |
| H Singh | $5,000 |
| K Vuggirla | $5,000 |
| K Singh | $5,000 |
| M Singh | $5,000 |
| P Kaur | $5,000 |
| KHALSA GURMAT CENTER | $5,000 |
| PANJAB DIGITAL LIBRARY USA | $5,000 |
| B Singh | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $444k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 30% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.
49 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 32 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $168k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- DNDASVANDH NETWORK6× · 2019–2024 · $444k · revenue ×13 · 61% of their budget
- SRSikh Research Institute7× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +166%
- PAPHOENIX ART MUSEUM3× · 2019–2023 · $60k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- GIGLOBAL INDIA FUND INCone grant, 2021 · $70k · revenue 0%
- IMIK MANZILone grant, 2017 · $60k · revenue -95%
- TCTHE CYBER SIKH ORGANIZATION A NON-PROFIT CALIFORNIA PUBLIC BENEFITgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $12k · revenue +33%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The Sikh Information Centre is based on Sikhi which stresses unity truth and creativity of a personal spiritual enlightenment The organization strives to develop evaluate and disseminate articles programs and social events at a local…
Khalsa foundation california seeks to empower and advocate for the sikh and punjabi communities in the united states, fostering a sense of belonging and promoting holistic well-being through the sikh way of being. we strive to build a…
ARTRONIKA is a collective of Los Angeles based artists that produce immersive arts programming showcasing an array of South Asian talent and culture. Through innovative and inclusive events, we reimagine traditional music, art, and…
The sikh coalition is a community based organization that works towards the realization of civil and human rights for all people. in particular, we work towards a world where sikhs may freely practice and enjoy their faith while fostering…
To promote the sikh religion.
Restoration and preservation of abandonded sikh historical site
Guru gobind singh foundation (ggsf) is a gurdwara that is a spiritual center an institution with a vision to create worldwide awareness regarding sikhs and sikhism. ggsfs mission has been to enhance the image of sikhs thru every possible…
To practice, promote and preach the principles of guru nanak dev ji's message of universal brotherhood as taught by the ten sikh gurus and sri guru granth sahib. the gurudwara sahib was formed to cater to the religious, social and cultural…
Sikh media and educational resources, education and promotion of sikh culture
Grant of scholarships
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Cyber Sikh Organization a Non-Profit California Public Benefit and the most unlike its peers is Ik Manzil. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 220 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds DASVANDH NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Sikh Research Institute ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL INDIA FUND INC ↗
- Who funds IK MANZIL ↗
- Who funds PHOENIX ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds UC SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Nanak Prachar Sabha Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CYBER SIKH ORGANIZATION A NON-PROFIT CALIFORNIA PUBLIC BENEFIT ↗
- Who funds LUDHIANA CHRISTIAN MEDICAL COLLEGE BOARD USA INC ↗
- Who funds Panjab Digital Library USA ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds Sikh American Legal Defense & Education ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Gurmehar Foundation · Beyond Borders Foundation Inc · Bhai Jaita Foundation Inc · S Kirpal Singh Family Foundation Tr · Dasvandh Network · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization 5Rivers Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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